JIC maintainer is unaware [url=http://raspi.tv/2014/get_iplayer-raspberry-pi-update]Get_iplayer[/url] is undergoing some changes, which i hope maintainer can implement and continue giving us this superb tool.
P.S i know link refers to ARM (raspberry pi) but it does give some info about changes.
regards

I am using an older pkg my $version = 2.85; and the search issue occurs here too, so i guess it's changes made by the BBC thats causing the 'returning only one search result ' issue.
Agreed it does sadly hamper the functionality somewhat.